There has been a lack of studies and a failure to
develop methodologies for short wave newscasts. Yet short
wave newscasts are news source for journalists, writing on
developments in various countries, and they are monitored by
an unknown number of the North American public.
This paper attempts to fill part of that gap with
the selection of features common to all short wave English
language newscasts, and the definition of such common aspects
by categories that are quantifiable, valid, and reliable. The
features are chosen to be useful in describing the style and
structure of a particular service, but their primary value
lies in their use as a/basis of comparison in studying other
services.
Five features (specification, news emphasis, immediacy,
national philosophy, structure) are developed, defined, and
tested in theory for reliability and validity. The features
are then defined by categories. They are then applied by the
use of a simple counting process to three services (Radio
Moscow, Radio Peking, Voice of America) to determine if comparison
is possible.
The results indicate the three services can be compared
and studied by the selected common features through the
use of relative numerical values. Persons interested in
short wave news reporting will be able to study such newscasts
on a comparative basis through the use of the five selected
features and their appropriate categories.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/44080 |
| Date | January 1973 |
| Creators | Doherty, Robert Paul |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | This work is being made available in OpenBU by permission of its author, and is available for research purposes only. All rights are reserved to the author. |
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